IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Borreguero
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2009CA069002
  • User Pedon ID: S09CA069002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2009CA069002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0921
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24644
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 36.3606949
  • Std. Longitude: -120.7630844
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18 S
  • Range: 11 E
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 2,115 feet (644.7 meters) north and 300 feet (91.4 meters) east of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: About 1.7 miles (2.7 kilometers) east from Coalinga Road at entrance of Clear Creek Management Area on (CCMA) route (R1) to Oak Flat campground, go to the middle of the north part of the campground and follow the designated RV trail about 1,800 feet (549 meters), then about 25 feet (7.6 meters) upslope from the trail.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: California
  • County: CA069—San Benito
  • MLRA: 15—Central California Coast Range
  • Regional Office: SW—Southwest
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SW-TEM—Templeton, California
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA069—San Benito County, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36120-C7—Hepsedam Peak, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bry Schmidt/Kerry Arroues
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic, shallow Typic Haploxerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Borreguero
  • PSC - 25 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/14/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Borreguero
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic, shallow Typic
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/2/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: mudstone
  • Geology: Kp;panoche Formation/claystone formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 10.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 2- to 75-millimeter mixed,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/2/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ADFA

    CECU

    Adenostoma fasciculatum

    Ceanothus cuneatus

    chamise

    buckbrush

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    48 - 73

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    7—48

    48—73

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    25

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    832.1

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    140

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    A—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; loam; 24 percent clay; weak thick platy parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; low excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N03365; slightly dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—7 to 19 centimeters (2.8 to 7.5 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 4/3) broken face, moist; silt loam; 24 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; low excavation difficulty; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 1.0 very fine tubular and 1.0 fine tubular pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N03366; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—19 to 36 centimeters (7.5 to 14.2 inches); variegated 25 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 25 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, 25 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face and 25 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 21 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; low excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 1.0 very fine tubular and 1.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03367; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw3—36 to 48 centimeters (14.2 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, moist; loam; 19 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low excavation difficulty; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine tubular and 1.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH meter; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 09N03368; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cr—48 to 73 centimeters (18.9 to 28.7 inches); weathered bedrock; high excavation difficulty; fragments, pH meter. Lab sample # 09N03369; observed in pit, small